Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Maryland researchers drilled holes in monkeys' teeth, sealed polio virus in the cavities, found that the animals became infected...
Under radio's hard, commercial breast beats a heart of gold. Listeners catch a glimpse of it in educational programs, in crises like the Ohio River flood of 1937, in more localized incidents like the epidemic in Minneapolis. There last week some 290 children were down with polio, the worst epidemic in the city's history. Thousands of others, kept indoors to escape infection, were driving anxious mothers out of their wits...
...epidemic in North Carolina, teeth of 272 polio victims had 2.6 times as many cavities as those of a comparable group of uninfected persons...
...unfilled dental cavity is an open door to polio. So conclude Neurologist Hans Reese of the University of Wisconsin and Dentist John G. Frisch of Madison, Wis. in the latest issue of Dental Digest...
Their warning dovetails neatly with the medical belief that tonsillectomies and tooth extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...